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If you own a Lenovo laptop you should check ASAP to see if its power cord has been recalled.
The company has just announced a giant recall of approximately 500,000 Lenovo laptop power cords because they could possibly over-heat and catch fire. [Read more…]
If more than one person uses your PC, you probably each have your own user account. If not, you really should! If you do, you might be wondering how to switch from one user account to another without having to reboot the computer every time.
It’s actually quite fast and easy to switch user accounts in Windows 8.1. Here are three ways to do it, depending on which screen you happen to be on at the time: [Read more…]
Passwords have been the primary means of authenticating the identities of computer users for decades, but that might not be the case for too much longer.
A consortium known as The FIDO Alliance (aka Fast IDentity Online) has just released specifications for alternate methods of verifying a user’s identity using biometric sensors and physical identity tokens. [Read more…]
I guess you could file this one under the “Now I’ve seen it all!” category.
Clothing designer Tommy Hilfiger is now selling a jacket that comes with detachable solar panels that produce electricity for charging the mobile devices that you carry around in your pockets.
Regular readers of this blog are well aware that I’m all about innovations in technology, but there are just some innovations that are perfectly welcome to pass me by. And a solar panel jacket is one of them.
Don’t get me wrong – I can see the benefits of having your clothing power your gadgets, but it just seems to me like there are tons of alternative options out there that are a lot less expensive and, quite frankly, a lot more attractive. [Read more…]
Facebook is a wonderful tool for communicating with family and friends, sharing photos and stories, and keeping up with your favorites music groups, charitable organizations and other interests. And as we all know, it can also be a huge (albeit fun) time waster.
But one part of the Facebook experience where most of us don’t really want to waste any time is the login process. To log in to Facebook, we first have to type in our email address, then our password. And if the email address is a long one and/or it contains several special characters, typing it in can be both time consuming and prone to errors (especially if you’re using a smart phone). [Read more…]